Volume 17 - 1997
Fall, 1997 - Volume 17, Number 4
Cosmic Humanism for the Space Age — Paul Kurtz
Frontlines
Letters
Sexual Freedom
Islam and Women's Rights
Getting a Humanist Education — Joe Nickell
Is Faith Good for You? — Hector Avalos
Why I Am a Secular Humanist — Wole Soyinka
Great Minds
- Letters from the Earth — Mark Twain
God on Trial
- Frenchy's Con — Michael Martin
Book Reviews
- Trying to Save God — Michael Martin
- The Crisis of Catholic Sex — Vern L. Bullough
- Porn: A Business Like Any Other — Molleen Matsumura
- Stories from Pro-Sex Feminists — Wendy McElroy
- Matter Matters — H. James Birx
- Dueling Visions — Rob Boston
Humanism at Large — Matt Cherry
Summer, 1997 - Volume 17, Number 3
The Need to Reach Out — Paul Kurtz
Frontlines
Letters
Cloning Humans
Exposing the Religious Right's 'Secret' Weapon — Gil Alexander-Moegerie
Can Science Prove that Prayer Works? — Hector Avalos
Morality Requires God ... or Does It? — Theodore
Schick, Jr.
Why I Am a Secular Humanist: An Interview with Albert Ellis
When Humanists Embrace the Arts — James Herrick
What's Wrong with Relativism — Lewis Vaughn
Secularists, Rise Up - and Celebrate! — Roger E. Greeley
Great Minds
- Absurdities of the Gods — Robert G. Ingersoll
God on Trial
- God for a Day! — Michael Martin
Book Reviews
- Who Is a Jew? — Paul Kurtz
- Reincarnation Undressed — Martin Gardner
- The Tragic Consequences of Faith — David Mackmiller
- Humanist Poetry for the Ages — Rob Boston
- Imaginative Atheism — Finnegeir Hiorth
Humanism at Large — Matt Cherry
Spring, 1997 - Volume 17, Number 2
Seeing Things
- Tampa Bay's `Virgin Mary Apparition' — Gary P. Posner
- Those Tearful Icons — Joe Nickell
The Honest Agnostic: Battling Demons of the Mind — James A. Haught
Notes From The Editor
- Surviving Bypass and Enjoying the Exuberant Life: A Personal Account — Paul Kurtz
The Freedom To Inquire
- Introduction — George D. Smith
- Atheism and Inquiry — David Berman
- Inquiry: A Core Concept of John Dewey's Philosophy — Larry Hickman
- Freely Ye Have Inquired? — Skipp Porteous
- Family Friendly Libraries — Robert Riehemann
- A Humanist's Doubts About the Information Revolution — Mario Bunge
The Virtues of `The Ethics of Belief': W. K. Clifford's Continuing Relevance —
Timothy
J. Madigan
National Character, Collective Guilt, and Original Sin - The Goldhagen Controversy
— Edmund
D. Cohen
On Witchcraft
- Witch-Children - Then and Now — Hans Sebald
- Children, Witches, Demons, and Cultural Reality — Phillips Stevens, Jr.
The Incredible Flimflams of Margaret Rowen, Part 3: The Comic Pratfalls of Robert Reid
— Martin Gardner
Reviews
- Those with Courage to Doubt — Robert Sherrill
- The Latest from Quine on Logic and Language — John Shosky
News And Views
Winter, 1996/97 - Volume 17, Number 1
Euthanasia Policy At The Crossroads
- Assisted Suicide: Will the Supreme Court Respect the Autonomy Rights of Dying Patients?
— Ronald A. Lindsay
- Euthanasia in The Netherlands — Pieter V. Admiraal
So Close And Yet So Far
- Catholic Primate Clings to Evolution — H. James Birx
- The Pope, Evolution, and the Soul — Mario Bunge
Humanist World Meets in Mexico City — Matt Cherry
Humanism In Eastern Europe
- Humanists Meet in Poland and Russia — Timothy J. Madigan
- The Polish Church as an Enemy of the Open Society — Andrzej Flis
By Any Means Necessary — Vivian Lindermayer
Student Freethought Group Embarks on Productive Path — Derek Araujo
The Need for a Universal Declaration of Human Values —Abe Solomon
Camp Quest '96 — Vern Uchtman
Breaking the Last Taboo — James A. Haught
The Infomedia Revolution: Opportunities for Global Humanism — Paul Kurtz
The Immortal David Hume — Nigel Bruce
Lucy Stone: Woman of Firsts — Lois K. Porter
The Re-Discovery of Ludwig Feuerbach — Van A. Harvey
Dr. Persinger's God Machine — Ian Cotton
Viewpoints
- Three Ways to Beat Religious Political Extremists — Skipp Porteous
Reviews
- Hitler's Jewish Genocide and Goldhagen's Holocaustbabble — Hans Askenasy
- Feminism Challenged — Mary McGreevy
- Homosexuality in the Mormon Church — Vern L. Bullough
- Twinkle, Twinkle — Adam L. Carley
- The History of Freethought — Joe Barnhart
- The Search for Connection Between Two Worlds: An Odyssey — Jeannette Lowen
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